The Meal
Exhibition
Group exhibition at Brooklyn Art Library, New York, February 2012
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About the exhibition
The Meal aims to inspire a sense of community across geographic and cultural boundaries while addressing the statement that ‘you are what you eat.’ However, for nearly a billion people worldwide, hunger is a constant, daily reality, and ‘what you eat’ is never enough. This project, an initiative of the Art House Co-op in Brooklyn, New York, addresses the chronic issue of global hunger and the organisations that strive to combat this ongoing crisis. The team asked thousands of people around the world to participate in a simultaneous meal with strangers, which took place on February 24, 2012, at 12 pm EST. The Meal exhibition encourages participants to support Action Against Hunger, one of the world’s most effective nonprofit organisations. in human culture.
Artist's statement
Rationale
One moment. One meal. One photograph. Let’s eat.
Whether it was breakfast in LA or a midnight snack in Beijing, participants took a moment out of their busy lives to share it with strangers across the world. In this image, I captured myself with my meal at my home in Bangkok. The photograph was displayed alongside other self-portraits contributed from around the world, documenting the world’s largest communal meal.
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